Analysis of To the Nile
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Son of the old Moon-mountains African!
Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile!
We call thee fruitful, and that very while
A desert fills our seeing's inward span:
Nurse of swart nations since the world began,
Art thou so fruitful? or dost thou beguile
Such men to honour thee, who, worn with toil,
Rest for a space 'twixt Cairo and Decan?
O may dark fancies err! They surely do;
'Tis ignorance that makes a barren waste
Of all beyond itself. Thou dost bedew
Green rushes like our rivers, and dost taste
The pleasant sunrise. Green isles hast thou too,
And to the sea as happily dost haste.
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Metre | 1101110100 110100010 1111001101 0101101101 1111010101 1111011101 111111111 110111001 1111011101 1100110101 110101111 11011010011 010111111 0101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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